Track: Java: Are You Ready for This?

Location:

Ballroom BC

Day of week:

Tuesday

Java 9 is scheduled for a final Release Candidate in January of 2017 (and general availability in March). Java 9: Are you Ready for This? focuses on the things you need to know about for the JDK’s next release. The track prepares you for what’s ahead on the JDK and positions you to be the person with the answers when the CTO asks: why should we move to Java 9 now and what’s it gonna take?

Wes Reisz joined QCon in 2015 and leads QCon Editorial as the conference chair. Wes focuses his energies on providing a platform for practicing engineers to tell their war stories so innovative/early adopter stage engineers can learn, adopt, and, in many cases, challenge each other.
Before joining the QCon Team, Wes held a variety of enterprise architecture and software development roles with HP. His focus with HP was around developing/federating identity, integration/development of Java stack applications, architecting portal/CM solutions, and delivering on mobility in places like US Army’s Human Resources Command (HRC), Army Recruiting Command, and Army Cadet Support Program.
In 2002, Wes began teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville. He continues to teach 400-level web architecture and mobile development courses to undergraduates. He is currently teaching Mobile Application Development with Android.

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